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In a move that could threaten a key source of recent and future growth, Intel has said it will be forced to stop shipping some of its Centrino mobile computing processors to China because it cannot comply with that country's government-mandated standards. Intel did not close the door on developing a...

The 1990s saw Latin American countries -- like their "developing country" counterparts in Asia -- benefit from large inflows of direct foreign investment as well as mergers-and-acquisitions activity. This tremendous influx of funds was in large part driven by the speculative Internet and telecommuni...

Cisco Systems introduced new products Tuesday that advance the company's so-called "Self-Defending Network" strategy. According to the company, its portfolio of new products works in an autonomic fashion to identify threats, isolate infected endpoints and reconfigure the network in response to intru...

An alliance of leading Internet companies -- including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and EarthLink -- has filed a wave of lawsuits against "hard-core" spammers under the new CAN-SPAM law that took effect at the beginning of 2004. Specifically, the companies said they have filed six lawsuits that name hundre...

In the latest example of a small software firm with cutting-edge technology being scooped up by a big-name tech player, privately held Trigo Technologies has agreed to be acquired by IBM, where its technology will become part of Big Blue's burgeoning middleware portfolio. IBM said it will integrate ...

Research firm IDC has predicted overall PC semiconductor revenue, from desktop and mobile units combined, will grow 18 percent to US$53.6 billion in 2004, marking the highest annual growth rate expected during the study's forecast period. "The recovery of the PC semiconductor market will hit its str...

How secure are application service providers (ASPs) -- and is too much of that answer riding on customers' usernames and passwords? As it turns out, an ASP's own customers may in fact present a risk, because they (and/or their employees) can all too easily abuse password sharing. New technologies in...

Many signs point toward a bright future for e-business: Online shopping activity is up, holiday seasons are becoming positively merry, and customer service is improving. On the other hand, some customers still fear identity theft, site usability is a continuing issue, and establishing an online bran...

Home improvement guru and media mogul Martha Stewart was found guilty Friday of charges that she obstructed the investigation into her 2001 sale of nearly 4,000 shares of ImClone, a close friend's company, just before the stock plummeted in value. All told, the charges against Stewart carry a maximu...

The heated battle between The SCO Group and the open-source community took another turn this week as an e-mail became public that seemed to imply Microsoft helped SCO raise millions of dollars for its legal war against open source. The e-mail, between a SCO executive and an outside consultant, appea...

A quiet trading day on Wall Street segued into a small dip after market close Thursday when semiconductor leader Intel narrowed its first-quarter revenue expectations. The company said revenue in the quarter will total between $8 billion and $8.2 billion, compared with a previously forecast range of...

In the post-9/11 world, the path to U.S. government contracts is paved with gold -- and crater-size potholes. Marcia Madsen, a partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw in Washington, D.C., spends her work hours advising clients -- would-be government contractors -- about contracts, teaming and strate...

The White House push to secure the U.S. digital infrastructure does not exclude IT systems of federal agencies, according to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which released its Federal Government Information Security Report this week. The OMB is required to submit the yearly report to Cong...

Michael Dell will relinquish the title of CEO at the company he founded in a dormitory room 20 years ago but will remain actively involved in day-to-day operations as chairman of the board, Dell Computer announced Thursday. Longtime executive Kevin Rollins, who joined Dell full-time seven years ago,...

Signaling its intention to remain a player amid the giants in the search engine battle, Ask Jeeves said it will acquire the parent company of the Excite Network of search engines for about $343 million in cash and stock. Ask Jeeves said the acquisition of privately held Interactive Search Holdings w...